It’s late August and here I am at home while all the cool kids are off at IWF in Atlanta. I caught a few hours of Wood Whisperer Live at IWF this morning and a few minutes yesterday morning. Wasn’t a good idea since I was supposed to be working. All I succeeded in doing was pulling my focus from the tasks at hand and daydreaming about making some saw dust myself. I have to say though that I am still amazed at the technical capabilities presented to us today. At one point in the Wood Whisperer chat room today we had 4 continents represented watching live video of a wood show in Atlanta, GA. Very, very cool Marc and Nicole! Thank you both for bringing us along so we can live vicariously through you.
Anyway, I had several stops to make on the way home today and between cell phone calls and those stops I managed to listen to the latest episode of the Splintered Board podcast. I think I listened to the whole 45 minute episode over a period of 6 hours. When I Twittered this, Rick responded apologizing for his ramblings and tangents. First of all, no one can hold a candle to the tangent king, Matt Vanderlist. (and I say that with lots of love) Secondly, I think that is what I find so entertaining about podcasts is that somebody can just rattle off their thoughts and share them with the world.
I responded to Rick that his show didn’t sound like rambling at all but just the result of a sweet wood dust high. I know we can all relate to that. I cannot count the number of nights that I have lost sleep because I cannot get my brain to shut off after a great day in the shop. I’ll lie there in bed thinking about the next step in the project or designing the look of something too charged up to sleep. Sometimes, I rush in from the shop covered in dust holding up a random piece of joinery or a freshly planed board and babble excitedly to my wife about the wonders I have just created. She smiles and nods and sends me back to the shop.
Now with this incredible web 2.0, digital revolution we are seeing in the woodworking world you can take a little bit of that feeling with you throughout the day. Call it our way of keeping up a nice buzz.
So after a long day of work with some samplings of twitter chat, Wood Whisperer live, and woodworking podcasts, I came home with a healthy wood dust buzz ready for the real stuff. I quickly shed the suit and tie and headed to the shop. No real time to do much but just enough to get my brain sparking and the room to start spinning.
Ahhhhh! Now that is the good stuff!
OK now I am just plain baked on the wood dusty goodness. All is right with the world again.
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1 Mike D. // Aug 25, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I read this part to my wife and we both started laughing.
“I responded to Rick that his show didn’t sound like rambling at all but just the result of a sweet wood dust high. I know we can all relate to that. I cannot count the number of nights that I have lost sleep because I cannot get my brain to shut off after a great day in the shop. I’ll lie there in bed thinking about the next step in the project or designing the look of something too charged up to sleep. Sometimes, I rush in from the shop covered in dust holding up a random piece of joinery or a freshly planed board and babble excitedly to my wife about the wonders I have just created. She smiles and nods and sends me back to the shop. ”
It sounds just like us!